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Weekly Overview:

Unit Description:

This unit focuses on learning and practicing the seven habits of highly effective teens with emphasis on discovering a personal learning style, acquiring organizational skills, developing successful methods of note-taking, reading, listening, and creating and maintaining successful relationships.

Essential Questions:

Can students make connections between and among texts and respond to them personally and analytically?

Can students demonstrate growth in independent reading, vocabulary acquisition, composition, grammar, and style?

Resources/Materials: Notebooks, textbook, text workbook

Standards/Benchmarks/GLEs: 01a03a-c, 04,  09a, 09c, 09f, 11, 12, 13a-f, 

Objectives:

Students will practice effective reading, note-taking, and listening and will experience the universal qualities of literature by reading, understanding, and connecting to thematic selections.

Student Learning Activities:

Bellwork

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band"-Part 1

 - Writing Activity Finding Word Meanings

- Reviewing the Case

Bellwork

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Part 2

Bellwork

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

 - The Reader as Detective

 - Story Clues

Bellwork

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band"

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finding Word Meanings

 - Reviewing the Case

Bellwork

"The Adventure of the Speckled Band" Part 3

Homework:

Attachments:

Assessments:  Predictions, Worksheets, Brainstorming, Writing

Links:

What strategies will I use to address literacy this week? Directed Reading-Thinking Activity